A previous customer/friend of mine from the yarn store gifted me with a bunch of brown novelty yarn approximately in November 2014. My idea was to just knit it into a warp, not even considering the different weights, which I finally nailed down today in preparation of this post. Of course the sides of my fabric bowed and pulled, which was unattractive. Then a lightbulb went off one night in a dream, when I finally found a use for some fox heads a previous guild member had gifted me with.

Today, having a car, I ventured out to F & S Fabrics to buy a needle that would pierce the hide, a thimble and some heavy duty thread. I then went to Michaels to purchase some Xacto replacement blades for trimming the hides. I sewed the heads onto either end, seamed up the fabric sides to create a tube, and voila!

The project name – What Does The Fox Say? by Ylvis – should be obvious. The scarf if available for purchase: Price: USD $288.00. This price reflects only knitting time, as the yarn was gifted to me, as well as the fox heads.

I finally finished – and not after getting too enthusiastic (136 inches!) for the Farrow Rib Stitch, the new skill of carrying yarn, and stripes. This stitch was so easy to do and almost mindless – I did find one error over three rows, but I defy anyone to find it without careful examination. After modeling the scarf for photography, I am a big fan of the double keyhole method (center picture, top row).

Of course because of all the orange, I am tempted to keep this scarf for myself. This scarf if for sale at Price: USD $25.00. Of course, if it does not sell, I will either keep it or donate it to charity.

The name of the scarf comes from the song of the same name: Always The Sun by The Stranglers.

Having a little yarn (the black nubbins) left over from the previous pink project, I decided it was close enough to purple to begin this improvised shawl. Once again, I double stranded the yarns, attaching new yarn to the end of the previous end. One important thing I realized and must remember from this point forward: eyelash must be double stranded with something of more weight to prevent atrophy. In this case, where I the Plassard Insolite and the Knitting Fever Flutter coincided, the shape is bowed. Live and learn.

I am really becoming a fan of making projects in this fashion. They are quick and easy, allowing the yarns to create the wow factor. Even the Feza Aspen used in conjunction with another yarn looks better than the Grape Soda Shawl I made using only the yarn, which in person appears quite brash, presuming not everyone, like me, wants to stand out or make a statement.

The construction worried me a bit because I only increase on one side, every row. While it was on the needles, I was thinking the shape was too narrow, and was much relieved when I bound off and discovered the shape was not too narrow. The shawl is work in garter stitch, using a KFB (knit front and back) increase.

The name comes from the song by Natalie Imbruglia and basically describes my emotional state of late. Being sick is not one of my favorite pastimes, especially when I am being kept from making an income. Emotionally, my mind is in upheaval over issues I must deal with that I have procrastinating on. I don’t know which came first the name or the design element in the center back of the shawl. I was also torn as to whether, or not, I should gift the shawl to Madeline, my Jewish mother, or sell it. I just sent her pictures and she loves it, so at least that is one less decision I have to make.

I am hoping to make a crescent shaped or half circle shawl next…in blues.

This was made as a sample for The Knitting Tree, L A. It only took two days to make all the components and sew them together. The wording in the pattern was a bit unusual, but easily modified into something I could understand. While I detest sewing components together, this was not so bad. My guess is because the seams are so short and there is not a multitude of components to seam together. The most popular comment at the store was that the eggs look like boobies. WTH? They look like eggs to me and they were fun to make. My bacon differs from the original pattern in that I added an additional two stripes of the darker color for a more balanced piece of bacon.

I got the Louisa Harding Sari Ribbon from the store and the Trendsetter Aura from Beach Knitting before they closed. I had been wanting to make a cape and sufficed with this capelet due to the one skein of Sari Ribbon I had. This was a very quick and easy knit. I only wish I had made the grey trim thicker, but it is sufficient as it is.

The name of this project – Hotel California by The Eagles – is from my music library and I think was inspired by the colors of this capelet.

I am pretty sure I was gifted six skeins of this yarn by tinsellybee. After completing Bubbe Sings the Blues, I was anxious to start a new shawl with this yarn. Close up, the tinsel is a bit distracting, but from a galloping horse view, not so much. It took me a minute to get the pattern down by memory, and thankfully the frogging was not to bad, considering it was double-stranded.